RGAR House Awards

House Term 3

In week 3 we held our termly house assemblies to gather students as a collective to celebrate those positively contributing to the success of the house, as we continue to foster a sense of belonging and identity. During the assemblies' students voted on which native Australian animal they wanted to represent their house as a mascot. Each mascot outlined the strengths and characteristics of the animal to allow students to better understand and connect with the animal chosen to symbolise everything their house stands for. The results are as follows:

Chisholm - The crocodiles

Deakin - The Dingoes

Florey - The Fruit Bats

Gilmore - The Geckos

Parkes - The Pythons

Students also had the opportunity to sign up to the House Olympics. Over the next 5 weeks students will have the chance to compete against the other houses across 5 different learning areas. The House Olympics is an important milestone in our house system as we continue to broaden the opportunities for our students to pursue their passions, interests and skills in different domains and engage in some friendly competition. 

Students have signed up to participate in the following activities:

Physical Education - Tug of war, Egg and spoon race and Sac race.

Humanities - Each year group will have to row or ride the required distance.

Year 7 - Rowing The Nile River

Year 8 - Riding The Crusade Agora

Year 9 - Riding The Sudetenland Agora

Each team member can only ride 1km before swapping (e.g. like a relay).

Food technology - The perfect pancake bake off

The Arts - Improve games or challenges

English - Spelling Bee

The schedule can be found below. May the best house win!

House Point Tally

House points can be viewed from our website, current standings are:

RGAR House Awards

The RGAR point system allows the school to award students who demonstrate good work, sportsmanship, commendable citizenship, among other attributes. Recognition of achievement via the RGAR awards is aimed toward inspiring House members to strive towards a common goal and at the same time working for their personal ones.

Apart from forging a greater sense of identity, our school House system and the development of a strong house culture offers several benefits for our students:

Fostering a Sense of Identity - Through adopting its own theme and identity, the Houses within our house system serve to create a sense of belonging and identity among members. Students will be made to feel right at home by participating in a series of activities such as helping out in school events.

Building New Ties - The sense of camaraderie and friendship is what our school is trying to develop. From the annual Sports Carnivals to day-to-day activities, the House system allows Houses to intermingle and team up together – albeit sometimes with a little friendly competition.

Cultivating Leadership - Within a House, students can undertake several roles – including leadership ones – to help them contribute and make a difference.

Within the RGAR point system, students are awarded points in four categories and throughout this and the coming years exciting, rewarding and interesting activities will be introduced within these categories in order to help develop our you people

1. Arts & Clubs
2. Leadership & Community
3. Sport & Recreation
4. Values

Points are assigned by staff and accumulate throughout a student’s time at CESC.

Badges

When a student has reached 1,000 points in any category they will be awarded a badge and a bronze merit for that category. The merit is attached to the badge. They will continue to accumulate points and be awarded a silver merit at 2,000 points, a gold merit at 3,500 points and a platinum merit at 5,000 points. These points are visible to both students and parents in Compass. An SMS will be sent home each time a students is awarded a badge. Badges and merits will be awarded at whole school or year level assemblies. 

Student point tally

You can see how many points a student has accrued by looking in Compass at their chronicle summary House Point Tally